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December 27, 2001 
December 25, 2001
Died on Wednesday December 26, 2001
- Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Golsteijn (74), Roermond
- Catharina Maria de Vries (78), Amsterdam
- Cornelis Josephus Leermakers (85), Wintelre, NL
- Albertha Stoffelsen (76)
- Cornelis Johannes Moerkens (81), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Deborah Lee Rayta (47), Brooksville, Hernando, Florida, Verenigde Staten
- CG Veldhoen (37)
- Anna Deprest (97)
- Donald Cope Maris (88)
- Cornelis van den Berg (81), Vlaardingen
Born on December 26
- 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
- 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
- 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
- 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
- 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
- 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
- 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
- 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
- 1992 » Jade Thirlwall, English singer
- 1994 » Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer
Died on December 26
- 1998 » Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)
- 1999 » Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
- 1999 » Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
- 2000 » Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2001 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2002 » Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
- 2002 » Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)
- 2003 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
- 2004 » Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)
- 2004 » Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b. 1980)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Jan
- Johannes
- Thomas
- Willem
- Cornelis
- Jacob
- Lucas
- Hendrik
- Alexander
- Pieter
- Robin
- Daan
- Daniel
- Ruben
- Bram
- Michael
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Maria
- Anna
- Johanna
- Elisabeth
- Emma
- Marie
- Anne
- Sophie
- Laura
- Amber
- Cornelia
- Lisa
- Sanne
- Femke
- Julia
- Charlotte
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2001
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
- January 26 » The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
- March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
- April 7 » Mars Odyssey is launched.
- April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
- July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
- November 14 » War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
The weather on Wednesday December 26, 2001
The temperature on December 26, 2001 was between 0.3 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI